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GOOGLE DRIVE HAS one of the more popular cloud services out there (by virtue of most people having access to one Google service or more), but every time you access or share a document, you’re giving permission to someone or allowing them access to certain information.
WhoHasAccess allows you to scan your Google Drive account and find out who has access to files in your account as well as what content is available to everyone.
Once you’ve your account scanned – usually takes a minute or two depending on how much you’ve stored – you will be given an overview of everyone who has access to your account.
Chances are you won’t find anything malicious, but considering how often Google Docs are used to share information, you may come across a few permissions you forgot about and would like to remove, or people you would like to revoke access from.
The annoying part is you can’t revoke access through the page, you have to do it through Google Drive, but that’s a small price to pay for knowing who has access to what.
And for those wondering, the makers behind the service delete all information they collect and remove their access permissions within 24 hours, although you can remove it yourself through your own account permissions if you want.
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How about an irish minister for corruption
@Stephen Kennedy:
Michael Lowry?
@Stephen Kennedy: Mick Wallace?
@Stephen Kennedy: would most likely be installed or captured by the elites within a week
@FrankDapavia: he would be a front runner for the job would Lowry but he has lots of competition
@William Bright: Mick wallace never took brown envelopes? he fights the good fight. he’s not part of that insider FF/FG lot!!
@Stephen Kennedy: Their is a hole opposition for that. How about a minister for the environment, too radical?
Mass migration divides and destroys traditional communities leaving lots of natives isolated and alone as their own neighbourhoods are transformed.
@William Bright: Most of us live in a country famed for mass emigration – am I to understand you feel Irish people flocking to and taking over boroughs of London or New York or Boston would be to blame for members of those original communities feeling isolated and alone as a result?
@Ciaran Ó Fallúin: perhaps that argument could be made certainly although Irish people and American people have far more in common culutrally and linguistically so it would not have as drastic an effect.
@William Bright: you have a one track mind. What about the massive problem in Ireland of rural isolation? Lonlieness is not a modern problem it’s been around forever and fair play to the brits for this initiative.
@Dermot Lane: this article is not about isolation in rural Ireland. The situations and causes of loneliness are very different in British society and directly related to the massive inward migration they’ve suffered.
@William Bright: Mass migration divides and destroys traditional communities”
USA should be doomed centuries ago…
@William: Very true. I witnessed that for myself in the last years of my mother’s life over there. All her immediate neighbours died off and were replaced by an incoming culture that doesn’t do integration, or even want to speak the language. It was pretty sad.
@William Bright: I’m Irish. I spent 12 years living in Dublin, if I’m brutally honest, I didn’t get a chance to get to know my neighbours. Looking back, I could say a lot of them may have been lonely and I probably didn’t get involved in so much as I possibly could. Was it my culture? Was it a linguistic barrier? …Am I Muslim and I’ve just not known up to now or am I misinterpreting your point?
Go away out of it with your nonsense! Society is changing with or without migration. Half the elderly folks I know would rather spend an hour moaning on facebook than chatting with the youth of today. The half that want to chat, just like the generations before them, can’t really find anyone to talk to and are lonely. This article isn’t anything new other than perhaps a step forward from society recognising the importance of helping the lonely and trying to establish how big the problem is and what measures help.
Or maybe I’m wrong and you’re right and “mass migration” is to blame!
@Ciaran Ó Fallúin: Sometimes the lonely need to talk before being able to listen to what someone else has to say. This could also be because their hearing is awful and they are embarrassed to admit it. Best solution keep trying.
@William Bright: The minute you resorted to name-calling, you lost your argument.
@William Bright: With rising rents and life changes and college, like most, I lived in 7 or 8 places over the 12 years, so getting to know anyone that well in a maximum of 2 years isn’t easy.
I’d love to argue the true likely sources and solutions to loneliness with you further but I’m not sure if you’re committed to getting to the bottom of things.
@William Bright: Do not blame mass migration. If traditions (especially Catholic traditions) were truly strong in Ireland, then nothing would be a threat. The issue behind this is growing secularism and not migration. When you have secularism, it becomes easy for other religions to influence.
@William Bright:
If you are truly Irish, and you want Ireland to be traditional, you would be Catholic. And if you are Catholic, you should understand that something unites Ireland and certain other countries – Christianity. If Christianity was strong enough, then people of other religions would look to up us. They don’t, because we are not strong enough due to widespread secularism everywhere in the west.
Nothing to do with the divided society created by heartless Tory economic policy I suppose.
Fine Gael are implementing similar policies here. Leo’s probably lining up Frances Fitzgerald as we speak.
@FrankDapavia: No nothing todo with political parties in either country.
People caring less for others and more about themselves maybe or less time for others.
A solution might be to say hello more and pop into see an older relation or neighbour.
If you can do this there is no need for a minister for lonely people….. and not just older people.
@Gillian Scully:
Sound advice there Gillian. Neo liberal capitalism results in a dog eat dog society where social infrastructure upon which older people are so reliant is privatised out and community spirit is broken apart.
@Gillian Scully: Gotta say tho… there are a lot of people who do make efforts already. The rise in poverty has also brought a rise in the number of people volunteering to help out. Some people work tirelessly to try and quell the damage. Granted, that’s always been the way but I think some of the millennials that get so much stick for many things deserve a particular nod in that regard. I think mindfulness of this kind of thing is on the increase. The trouble is, so is extremism in all forms.
Fair idea, but loneliness has its origins in the industrial revolution and the individualism that ensued. Family members and old friends taking off in different directions for their personal pursuit of happiness. But often because they have little choice and simply have to make a living. So sure, patch the symptoms of the disease, but its causes will need to be recognized.
@Mick Tobin: There is certainly something in what you say.
Tracy grouch?
What a name!I’m depressed already.
@gerry fallon:
Not to worry you can always contact the minister for hugs and kisses at the department of cheer the fcuk up.
@Tweed Cap: or the minister for “get your bleeding act together!
@gerry fallon: except that’s not her name
@Dermot Lane: Doh, really Dermot?
Did you not get the joke or are you another one of these boring tools that troll on the journal?
Get a life.
Fine Gael have a minister that causes loneliness more or less the same thing none of them do anything.
Lonliness is a product of neo liberal economics and cultural marxist. Less social solidarity and fewer services.
@Al Coholic: no one was lonely or depressed in East Germany thank God for the Stasi
@Fergus Sheahan: not seeing the relevance of your reply. You might grace me with an explanation.
Loneliness is a series problem and one created to a large extent from the rigid social structures we have adopted where we have the single family unit as the foundation for everything. In our modern society, where neighbours are strangers, relatives are spread across the country or even the world, it is so easy to become isolated, particularly when the single person who you relied on as your sole partner, dies. We should look at more communal arrangements and greater sharing opportunities. Something like hippy communes for the middle-aged. Just a thought!
For most visitors and emigrant workers England Is London. They can’t/wouldn’t get to see Newcastle-Upon-Tyne any more than they’d get to see and enjoy the far reaches of Cornwall. London was a lonely concrete jungle in the late 1970s. There will be even more (lonely) people by now. Liam Neeson was interviewed yesterday about his role in “The Commuter.” He described when you start to see “familiar faces” in the tube or on the train…and you might (just) nod or smile. Really…Hardly. I sometimes think Londoners wear their standoffishness like a bizarre badge of honour. Like we/they are in the trenches – still in the war. Unless of course there is a terrorist attack – or a towering inferno. Then, and only then may they come together. Go to a northern town, there you’ll witness real warmth..
@Paul Jennings: or should that read “London is England?” Minister for Loneliness. I’d rather fancy my chances as Minister for Suicide/Mental illness/Human Chaos and Dysfunction. Does the position come with a generous benefits and sick leave package? She’ll need it…
@Paul Jennings: Careful there Paul. Gawking at the non-locals with their horseless carriages and magic hand boxes isn’t the same as ‘warmth’.
I live in a rural area where there is a very good awareness of the needs of the elderly. We have in the general area two day care centers where people can go to socialize and have a midday meal , transport is provided to pick them up at their own home ,Also meals on wheels are delivered to their homes if required. Sheltered Housing is also available at the Centres.
Several Parish Halls and Community Centres run Bingo and Card Games which are very popular. Also the GAA play a huge role in the community far beyond sport.
Christmas Parties for Senior Citizens are held every year in every Parish.
Another initiative is the Rural Bus which enables non drivers to go to town to shop each week.
Most of these services are run by volunteers .
I moved from a large city to rural life. I find community spirit and support is alive and well there.
That’s sad
Party at Tracey House !!!!….
It really is a poor show on modernity when the people expect the government to look after every aspect of their lives.
That will be a quiet job!
Nothing to be said about Tory neo-liberalism policies causing loneliness in the first place? Let’s see how in-effective this minister is.
““the sad reality of modern life””
You couldn’t make this sh**t up. Can’t they just get a cat?
@Rear Admiral: The new minister will supply government issue cats to all lonely people.
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